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I've got to stop letting time slip away. so much has happened since i blogged last for one thing spring is here and the cherry blossoms have come and gone. The fabulous azaleas are starting to bloom now.Andrea has been in India for a month now. and is due to come home Wednesday 4/28/10 Reading her blog has made me think about travel and how ready I am to go see the world. We have always talked about traveling some day. Is it time? It seems at 47 ish It's all about the experience and making memories with the love of my life. Time it investigate!
Maybe it the new HD 1080 p TV .

Valentines /Anniversary

Steve woke me up Sat. morning,Steve ran up the stairs to tell me that Dan's painting was in the Richmond Times. It seems he delivered it to a girl he likes but it ended up at the wrong door. Several newspapers picked up the story. Very cool. We had a nice weekend.
Andrea made berieanni and Sat morning she made a traditional Indian breakfast yum. Sunday Christopher made breakfast and we spent the afternoon at the mall Steve surprised me with a laptop Wow! I guess he got tired of sharing his all the time. It's a pink Dell love it.We had dinner at Red,Hot and blue I really wanted BBQ

Stormagedon 2010

Well, Dec. snow storm was just a warm up for the Feb. Blizzards yes so far there have been 2 blizzards. Friday Feb. 5th we got out of work early due to a storm system coming from the southwest we went to the stores wen. and thurs. to get supplies to prepair for the 5th and with good reason. We expected2 to 3 Ft. of snow. and snow it did. for 2daysat about 30 inches then round 2 was 48 hrs later with winds topping48 mph and dropping another 4or 5 inches. anyway, it made the record books. DC hasn't seen this much snow since 1899.

Top photo the parking lot outside our town house.This was after the first storm.

Bottom photo is liz's car under fallen tree limbs.

Dinner with Judy

Steve and I went to Viet house at 11216 lee Hwy in Fairfax Va 22030 for dinner. It's an authentic Vietnamese restaurant Wow, I was a wonderful meal.It was Delicious. and fresh. The price was more than reasonable. Judy walked us through all the food prep and spices. It was so cool. The orentation proved to be quite valuable. The chop sticks only lasted 10min before I went for a fork. We found a new favorite place to eat. We had summer rolls and some of Judy's meatball soup(she shared).and the main course was very large Vermicelli bowl. Check out the menu at www.phoviethouse.com . To make it even more enticing there's a Christian store next door and a yarn shop 2 doors down. Heavens be praised!!!!!! The plaza of my dreams.

cabin fever

We still have snow on the ground from Dec.21 snow storm It's just been unusually cold this year for Virginia. I think my blood has thinned, not sure. Anyway,We made plans to go to the Library of Congress the Eastern Market and also see the Terra cotta warriors @ the National Geographic museum. The warrior exhibit was sold out, so we went to plan "B" wing it.
Adrienne and Pat came with us. We made a stew and put it over in the crock pot left around 10 by the time we got off the metro we we're all ready for lunch. Adrienne and Pat have never gone with us to this area on capital hill so we took them to our favorite hole- in -the -wall restaurant Tortilla Cafe at Eastern Market I had a Salvadoran chicken sandwich with yucca and platiano and a nice drink called Horchaca. On to the Library of Congress awesome place a national treasure for sure. Pat has never seen the new Capital visitors center before. It was right across the street. very convenient especially around 2pm when you've walked enough.
Back home around 5:30 or so for a yummy beef stew. I'll need Sunday to recover.

It's been a long time

I haven't written sence Dec. 6th when we bought a vita mix blender, at a costco demonstration. I've been blending all kinds of food making peanutbutter, Icecream,soups, sauces, and the life changing greensmothie. I've been doing alot of reading and reserch about vitamix and weightloss,healthy eating. There's no excuse now for not eating healthy. I blend all kinds of whole foods into drinkable yummy smoothies that are nutrious.
After a month and a half i've lost weight, gained energy, my nails are stronger and I sleep better at night.I feel great. I drink a quart or more a day of green smoothie varieing the greens ,fruits and vegggies 1 quart =15 servings of greens, fruits, veggies. By 10AM I've gotten all my serving in for the day, no worries.

Vitamix 5200

Today we needed to go to Costco to get groceries. In an interesting twist of fate we came upon a demo of the Vitamix 5200 Where you been all my life? I just love this machine.OMG Steve was so impressed very hard to do. We decided to give it to each other for Christmas. check it out at www.vitamix.com Oh, we got groceries too.